Configuring Web Hosting Based on Samsung Cloud Platform Services

Overview

We can easily and quickly create a website using a content management system (CMS) that utilizes various themes and plugins.
One of the most widely used CMS is WordPress, which requires a LAMP environment, namely Linux, Apache Web Server, MySQL, and PHP.
In this document, we will explore how to configure a WordPress environment using Samsung Cloud Platform’s Virtual Server and MySQL, and discuss the architecture for building and hosting a website, considering additional features like CacheStore.

Architecture Diagram

1. Create a basic network environment using VPC configuration, enabling connections between Virtual Servers and between Virtual Servers and the internet. VPC is divided into Front-end, App, and Data Subnets to minimize communication
   
2. The Load Balancer in the Front-end Subnet distributes web request traffic to Virtual Servers in the VM Auto Scaling group.
3. Create a Virtual Server or VM Auto Scaling group in the App Subnet, select a Linux image, and install the latest version of WordPress, Apache web server, PHP, and OPcache.
4. Configure a Database using the DBaaS MySQL service.
5. If the Database has a high read load, configure CacheStore in front of the Database to provide frequently called data as a cache.
6. Use the Object Storage service to enable Virtual Servers to share WordPress data, PHP files, settings, and plugins.

Use Cases

Quickly start web hosting without hardware investment

Use Samsung Cloud Platform services to build and use web hosting without hardware investment costs and long lead times.

Web service infrastructure that can respond flexibly to changes in usage

If a surge in usage is expected during a specific period, respond flexibly by scaling VM Auto Scaling and Virtual Server types horizontally and vertically.

Pre-requisites

None

Limitations

The use of VM Auto Scaling services is limited to Virtual Server resources and does not apply to other services in the Compute service group (e.g., Bare Metal Server).

Considerations

Securing web server security

Configure and use cloud security solutions to secure web servers with internet access, such as:

• WAF service to monitor website traffic, detect, and block attacks
• DDoS Protection service to detect and block DDoS attacks that overwhelm web servers
• Web vulnerability scanning service to check for potential vulnerabilities in web pages
  
  

Related Services

This is a list of Samsung Cloud Platform services related to the features or configurations described in this guide. Refer to this list when selecting and designing services.